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bank of the Black Water; his house Is a hand- 

 some modern building, but too much exposed 

 for the comfort of the proprietor. 



Among the public buildings at Fermoy is a 

 very beautiful church. The ground rents in 

 the town are higher than in almost any in Eng- 

 land. Six pence the square yard, or at the rate 

 of one hundred and twenty-one pounds per sta- 

 tute acre. At Leith indeed, a small site near 

 the docks was sold at a rate exceeding forty 

 thousand pound per acre ! A ground rent of 

 five pounds a year is paid on a very moderate 

 house, letting at about forty pounds per annum. 

 A summer's grazing for a cow costs four pounds. 

 Coals are two shillings a barrel dearer here than 

 at Cork, which must give a decided preference 

 to the establishment of manufactories at that 

 place. A question may arise how such rents 

 are to be paid in future, when there may be less 

 occasion for the present military establishments, 

 on which the greater portion of the business 

 here depends. 



Fermoy is a forcible example of what may be 

 accomplished by the genius, resolution, and per- 

 severance of one man. Whether the establish- 

 ment may be able to support itself on a future 



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